blazer
Meanings
Plural: blazers
Noun
- lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school
- A semi-formal jacket.
- A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
- Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
- The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
- One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
- One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
- An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
- A con or swindle.
Origin / Etymology
From blaze + -er. Originates from the 'blazing' scarlet jackets worn by members of Lady Margaret Boat Club, the rowing club associated with St. John's College, Cambridge. Compare Old English blæsere, blasere (“burner, incendiary”, literally “blazer”).
Synonyms
sport coat, sport jacket, sports coat, sports jacket
Scrabble Score: 17
blazer is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordblazer is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blazer is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
blazer is a valid Words With Friends word